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Clinton P. Conrad (), Bernhard Steinberger and Trond H. Torsvik
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Clinton P. Conrad: SOEST, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Bernhard Steinberger: Helmholtz Centre Potsdam, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Trond H. Torsvik: Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics (CEED), University of Oslo, 0316 Oslo, Norway

Nature, 2013, vol. 503, issue 7477, E4-E4

Abstract: Abstract replying to M. L. Rudolph & S. Zhong Nature 503, 10.1038/nature12792 (2013) We thank Rudolph and Zhong for their Comment1, which allows us to highlight important aspects of our original Letter2. In particular, they have provided an example of plate motions at 300 million years (Myr) ago (see right column of figure 1 of ref. 1) in which the plate tectonic quadrupole is not representative of plate tectonic divergence patterns (that is, there is no divergence in the middle of their supercontinent, despite a divergent quadrupole there). However, our study2 does not claim that there should be a correspondence between quadrupole locations and the specific locations of plate tectonic divergence—instead we argue that plate tectonic dipole and quadrupole locations are representative of underlying mantle flow only.

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